Sands

Thank you for the wonderful prompts 🙏✨

Power & money
money & power
ruining this #precious
world of ours

Unabated
the corrupt
& cunning grow
cheered on by naïve
self-serving crows

Waging wars
settling scores
maiming children
sparing none

wake up
voice the truth
the world needs you
now more than before

~rev
#vss365

Chaos & disruption
is not real power.
it’s only borrowed time.

Deception may
delay the truth,
but truth rises.
It always does.

Real power endures.
It builds.
It empowers others
to prosper.

Those who rule
through chaos
are remembered
not with respect,
but with notoriety.

Life is too short to wake up each morning with regrets

Believe that everything happens
for a reason

Never take people who care, for granted

choose those who choose you

Otherwise, one day
you may realize you lost #precious diamonds while
you were busy collecting stones

~rev
#vss365

"I don't like talking about myself."
"This is social media. Be social."
sigh
I'll update this as I ponder it.
Me...
Writing, logic, science, sports, books, coding, writing, e-games, ttrpg, bad luck, writing, rough past, aspd, ptsd, violence, hope, writing, trying, honest, brash, honorable, humble.

🙏✨

Night come gently
widen the day

Slowly
lights fade
linger & delay

Let soft lustre
illuminate
where nature’s
#harmonies flow

Stay
let the ambience rise
& let the amber glow

Twilight is spreading
slow & Night begins to play
I pray you stay
I pray you stay

~rev
#vss365

Power & money
money & power
ruining this #precious
world of ours

Unabated
the corrupt
& cunning grow
cheered on by naïve
self-serving crows

Waging wars
settling scores
maiming children
sparing none

wake up
voice the truth
the world needs you
now more than before

~rev
#vss365

Life is too short to wake up each morning with regrets

Believe that everything happens
for a reason

Never take people who care, for granted

choose those who choose you

Otherwise, one day
you may realize you lost #precious diamonds while
you were busy collecting stones

~rev
#vss365

Dylan watched as the hanger deck crew eased Magpie back into her bay, ensuring they treated her right and proper. Boy! She was a #bonny bird. He loved that ship. Loved it more than any person he’d ever known.

Just a ship? No such thing. Magpie was a companion closer to him than skin.

#vss365

Life is too short to wake up each morning with regrets

Believe that everything happens
for a reason

Never take people who care, for granted

choose those who choose you

Otherwise, one day
you may realize you lost #precious diamonds while
you were busy collecting stones
#vss365

Caught daydreaming
I must confess
I imagined myself
healed,
a centered in
light,
reaching inside
for love—
Only to wake up
and see the miles
of road ahead

#solseed #cassiopeian #poetry

Waves breaking over stone jetty under a cloudlit sky.

She looks at me,
eyes moonstruck from the craggy shore.
I pray I’ll never forget those shoreborn eyes,
which held me for many a night and morrow.
But the ocean turns hours to years and boy to man,
and my #Bonny is but a memory—
for land and sea, they meet but once.

#vss365

📷 Pixabay

Chaos & disruption
is not real power.
it’s only borrowed time.

Deception may
delay the truth,
but truth rises.
It always does.

Real power endures.
It builds.
It empowers others
to prosper.

Those who rule
through chaos
are remembered
not with respect,
but with notoriety.

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Look, my love! Spring's here!
It chases away winter ...
Reminds me of you.

#senryu

.

we touch
the #lightning surges
a frisson of hope
and rightness
traversing my skin
feeding my soul

#vss365
#poetry

Night come gently
widen the day

Slowly
lights fade
linger & delay

Let soft lustre
illuminate
where nature’s
#harmonies flow

Stay
let the ambience rise
& let the amber glow

Twilight is spreading
slow & Night begins to play
I pray you stay
I pray you stay

~rev
#vss365

Good evening!

Life has a strange way of reminding you when you’ve left your keys in the wrong house.

What’s meant for you will eventually return….
if you want it badly enough.

A nation drowned
in skin #lightening creams

Trading brown & gold
for chemical dreams

Taught to loathe
the skin we wear
trade "natural" for "fair."

Faces young & bright
Bleached in rose & vanilla light

Strike a pose erase the tan
Now the dose is doubled for the man.

#vss365

Thank you 🙏 🧡

#vss365 #poetry

You’re a little bit of #lightning
At the back of my mind
Giving my blood hiccups
Everytime I have a flashback

My heart jolted by little hammers
Pumps my inner red ink into words
Spilling onto pages & screens
The good bad sometimes funny
& sure as hell ugly too

A nation drowned
in skin #lightening creams

Trading brown & gold
for chemical dreams

Taught to loathe
the skin we wear
trade "natural" for "fair."

Faces young & bright
Bleached in rose & vanilla light

Strike a pose erase the tan
Now the dose is doubled for the man.

#vss365

I seek her face,
the steady grace
of her warm embrace.

The light in her smile,
the song in her voice,
the depth of her
#spellbinding eyes
and the silk of her
flowing mane.

#ves365
#Spellbound

If you’d share
the last square of your
chocolate with me
also your kindness,
your #magnanimous heart,
your Wi-Fi password
and a little bit of your time.
Chocolate melts
too quickly anyway
but good company,
strong Wi-Fi and a kind heart
lasts a lot longer over time
🍫📶😁

#vss365

I seek her face,
the steady grace
of her warm embrace.

The light in her smile,
the song in her voice,
the depth of her
#spellbinding eyes
and the silk of her
flowing mane.

#ves365
#Spellbound

#vss365 #poetry

Moonstruck I am
#spellbound by your charm

Enchanted by the magic in your eyes
Your love has me wrapped in its warm arms

My heart soars like a bird in the skies
for in this love a true philosophy lies

That lifes greatest surprise is a love in disguise

A swan delegation
The water sleeps beneath the moon
The white form gathers slow and grave
Obeying the unspoken will The passage toward the pale starlight
He's the first one to the west
He plots his course to the east
A nighttime message is given
In a pale procession of the tide

#BluSkyPoetry

In the garden where our laughter blooms,
Two hearts entwined beneath the silver moon,
Your love, #magnanimous as the endless skies,
Embraces all that time can never prune.
So let us paint our days in shades divine,
With colors bold, our souls forever twine.

#vss365

Dylan tried to be #magnanimous about the citation for gallantry in the face of The Enemy, but he wasn’t the only one to have fought in that battle. Most of his crew had suffered, but only a few got the recognition they deserved.

He hardly did a thing, barking orders, nothing more.

#vss365

Speak to me now,
while the air is still warm.
Say words that hold weight….
#bountiful of love.

Let not the hollow ones
ever hold space,
nor the hurtful ones
slip thy lips again.

~rev

#vss365